Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-29

card n1anipulator now being out Of funds
desired to go to town for more, the land
buyer proposed to drive him, and the
scheme was quickly executed, the two
$1,000 leaving him afoot three miles from
town. Coming in the crooks changed dis
guises and escaped. A little over q year
ago Van Roukin was confidenced out OF
Sl,7oo by On alleged relative Of DR.. Glyck.
Judge Aaron Goodrich, died at St,
Paul, Mimi, after a long illness, on the oath
His burial takes place at Goodrich, Mich
He was born in Sempronius, Cayuga county,
y. " July g, 1907. In 1915 his parents
spent his minority on the farm, receiving his
education partly in district schools but
chiefly at home, by the aid Of his father,
who was thorough scholar. He then read
law while, moved to Tennessee, and com.
menced practice in Stewart county, Of that
state. In 1S47-4S he was member of the
state legislature Of Tennessee-the only
WING that ever represented his district
and he was pronounced an active and eff
Gent member of that body. In the spring
OF lS49 ne was appointed to the supreme
pench OF Minnesota Territory, arriving in
the territory in May of that yesr and serv-
ing on the supreme bench until Nov. 10,
1851. 1n March, 1861, he was appointed by
President lincoln secretary of legation at
BRUSSELS, and served in that capacity lit
tie over eight years. Here he had ample op-
portunlty for the indulgence of his literary
and antiquarian tastes, and among other
things gathered much material for q work
published III 1S74-"A History of the Char
acter and Achievements of the So-Called
Christopher Columbus For many years
Judge Goodrich was prominent iu legal and
political circles in ST. Paul.
The third annual meeting of the
Southwestern Minnesota Editorial Asso-
citation was held at Mankato, June 81. About
20 editors were present: T. e. Bowen, of the
bago City, Press News; J. A. johnson, H.
J: Esalier and j. Blackstone, of the St. Peter
Herald; J. A. Henry, GAINESVILLE Argus !;
Amt Brandt, New Tim Review: ". G..
Brown, Wells, Advocates; E. n. Dearth,
LeSueur News; VIM. Kinds, Shakopee,
Argus; B. G.. sanborn, Medelia Times, were
gram was received and read from MIR.
Graham. editor of the Waseca, Radical,
who was to read a paper, stating it was i'm
possible to be present T. E. Bowen read a
very intere sting paper on the temper of the
EDITORIALS of country journals. The follow
Hunt. first vice-president, c. e. Wise;
second vice president, j. A. Henry; secre-
tary, E. II. Dearth; treasurer, T. E. Bowen.
Executive committee, J. II. Sherwin, j. A.
johnson, William Kinds, B. c. Sanborn.
The burning of theLaird- Norton saw
mill at Winona. Mimi, on the oath, ruined
a years business of the volume of three
fourths of a million dollars. The Laird
Norton company was organized in the
fifties, and the saw mill was built in 1858.
The W G tod in 1902 y,
capital of $l,000,OOO. Nj. G. Norton is
president, J. L. Norton, vice president and
W. 81. Laird, secretary and treasurer. They
employ about 400 men, and manufacture q
yearly average of s., 000, 600 feet of lumber,
1900 o lath >! and md p Sloeo ooo single They
have forty yards in the Northwest,
immense pine lands, and are interested in
the WinOna lumber mill, the North Wis
consin mill at Hayward, Wis, and the
Chippewa Lumber and Boom company.
The Chicago Farmers Review of
this week in its crop report says that eight
winter wheat growing states report the av-
erage condition of the crop SO per cent, and
seven counties in Wisconsin place the aver
age at SO per cent: The condition of spring
wheat in the different states is as follows:
Wisconsin counties report an average con-
dition of IS per cent. Seventeen counties in
Iowa place the average at 81 per cent.
Eleven Minnesota counties report an aver
age of 81 per cent. Nine Nebraska counties
place the average at 80 per cent, and six
counties in Dakota report an average of 80
per cent. The condition of the oat crop,
from drouth and insects, is everywhere be-
low the average. Corn prospects are first
class. Hay and grass are short from drouth.
The late Montana legislature passed
a bounty law paying cents bounty of each
ground squirrel. A dispatch from Helena
says that when the law went into effect
there was, in hard cash, IN the territorial
time $50, 900 have been added, making to-
tai of S92 900, nearly every cent of which
has been wiped out by the bounty law. The
mountains and foot hills are full of these
little animals, and as they are quite tame it
is very easy matter to capture them, a
A spry ranchman's boy can easily earn s. or
81 per day knocking over squirrels. It is es-
timated that by July there will be no
money in the territorial treasury to pay the
bounty, nor is there likely to be any:
Ninety acres, half mile from St.
Peter, Mimi, have been purchased for fair
grounds. The whole 80 acres is to be fenced
in and a good race track laid out Stables
to accommodate numerous sheds for the ex
hibit of stock are soon to be erected. Water
will be furnished by windmills, and an
amphiteatre large enough to accommodate
600 people will be erected. Numerous
horsemen of southern Minnesota have said
that the roads around st. Peter were well
adapted to the training Of young stock, and
that if any inducement were offered in the
way Of stables and track they would come
with their horses. The interest of the whole
county ism the project and succSe is as
sured.
Gov. A. r. McGil has received an
Invitation from John A. KassOn President.